As a sustainability consultant in Buenos Aires, I recently attended the first ever green building conference in the country. Though the organizers expected less than 100 participants, the room packed with more than 200 architects, engineers, developers, property owners, and public representatives, eager to learn about other countries' experiences developing their green building sector. Currently, 12 projects are LEED registered in Argentina and the first, Madero Office, will be certified soon. Read more...
De huidige marktsituatie vraagt om bezinning, vernieuwing en een andere manier van werken.
30 sept. start een serie seminars rond Authentieke bedrijfsvoering Om stil te staan bij ‘het waarom we de dingen doen die we doen’, waar we als bedrijf en mens in geloven en waar we graag een bijdrage aan willen leveren. En inspiratie op te doen als het gaat om opereren vanuit authenticiteit en betekenisgeving. Read more...
Vanaf vandaag kan iedereen die aan zijn persoonlijke ontwikkeling wil werken, gebruikmaken van Coachi. www.coachi.nl is een onafhankelijk, online coachingsplatform, dat zich onderscheidt door de interactieve aanvulling op het bestaande contact tussen coach en coachee.
Met Coachi wordt alle informatie centraal beheerd. Bovendien is deze informatie voor alle betrokken partijen altijd online beschikbaar. Directeur Frits Willem Bakker: “Coachi speelt in op de tijdsgeest van ‘een leven lang leren’, waarin mensen toenemend de verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor hun eigen ontwikkeling. Dit platform combineert die ontwikkelbehoefte met de mogelijkheden van moderne technologie.” Read more...
Geinteresseerd in een seminar rond dit onderwerp? Stuur dan een mail naar info@ik-identity.com en ik stuur je van harte de uitnodiging voor een seminar over dit onderwerp ‘De Spiegel en het Beeld’.
What are the Four Forces about? I became aware of the Four Forces in coping with some daily dilemma’s: “Should I buy the tomatoes grown in my neighborhood, or do I give in to the seduction of the big tasty red ones from South Africa?” In making that decision I have to weight my personal interest against the pollution the transport causes. I have to make a choice between me or we. It is about taking care for a part (or fragment) or taking responsibility for the whole.
Another dilemma I experience quit often is when I measure the immaterial by the material dimension and vice versa. Where the immaterial dimension is endless, abundant, and not necessary objectively to explain, the material is scarce, subject of research and most of the time we can agree on what we see. In most of the situations we have to deal with both sides: the material and the immaterial or the facts and the meaning, the objective and the subjective, the reality and the dream. The dilemma starts when we try to solve the problem only one way, excluding the other side. Read more...
The name of this winery popped out at me while browsing through a book on interesting wine factoids. Grace Family Vineyards planted their vines in 1976, long before Napa was known as a wine growing region. It also turns out that the owner, Dick Grace, and his family have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to children’s charities in Mexico, Nepal and India as well as helping the homeless of San Francisco and constructing health clinics around the world through the Grace Family Foundation.
The Grace Family Vineyards is a very small Napa Valley winery focused on extremely high quality. It is one of the most unique wineries in existence due to it’s owner, whose son Kirk manages the vineyard which is farmed organically using biodynamic techniques. Grace has adopted many Buddhist beliefs and tries to use the winery and its profits as “a catalyst for healine our planet." Read more...
Books are whispers of the past heard well into the future. Lydie Hakizimana opened her bookstore Drakkar Ltd. in Nyarutarama, Mountain Center in Kigali, Rwanda three years ago. Lydia sells new and used books with an emphasis on educational material and text books for students at the local schools and universities. With the return to academics for many Rwandans, Lydia has a created a welcome niche.
However, though the genocide is over, the lingering result is a collective ambition for survival, success and deeper faith, which is reflected in Lydia's current recommended reading list. Read more...
The United Cerebral Palsy's Transition Employment Center or TEC Students in Pensacola, Florida recently took an all expenses paid "trip" to Egypt! The Global Corner International Learning Center visited TEC and transported the students to Egypt by presenting interactive lessons.
About forty students began their trip with learning that Egypt is located in Africa, and that most of the country is compromised of a desert. Students also actively participated in the introduction by learning to say hello, teacher, and goodbye in Arabic, and then saying the words to one another. Read more...
Last month I visited Norway, to attend the folk and world music festival in the small town of Førde. It turned out to be a major event -- one of the largest of its kind in all of Scandinavia -- with an audience easily twice as numerous as the town's usual population (11,000).
One of the highlights of Førde 2009 was a fantastic "unplugged" performance by Skáidi at the former bank building of Førde, a beautiful wooden house from the nineteenth century. Skáidi is a very unusual duo, consisting of Sami joiker Inga Juuso and jazz bassist Steinar Raknes. Read more...
A rather old man who lives in my Tokyo neighborhood came shuffling along on his way to go shopping. He stopped and talked with a girl of about six who was playing in the parking lot of my apartment complex. It was obvious by their animated conversation that they knew each other well.
The man asked how she was doing in school and she replied that she was working hard and even though it meant less play time, she was studying a lot every day. He praised her for her effort and exhorted her to do her best. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out a candy bar which he offered her as a reward. She bowed and accepted without hesitation. The old man smiled, bowed back to her and continued down the street. Read more...
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